Pocket is one of Deadlock's most mobile heroes, capable of dealing explosive damage from range and vanishing from a fight a moment later. His playstyle revolves around short raids: dive in, fire off a chain of abilities, deal area damage, and retreat before the enemy can respond. This guide breaks down Pocket's kit, his core combos, and the positioning principles every aspiring skirmisher needs.

Role and Strengths

Pocket is a spirit-damage hero who thrives on the flanks of team fights. He doesn't tank and he doesn't charge in head-on — his job is to find favorable trades, finish off wounded enemies, and apply area pressure. Thanks to his mobility, Pocket shifts between lanes easily, picks off isolated targets, and escapes from being surrounded. His main weakness is fragility: caught by hard crowd control without a dash ready, he dies in seconds, so every move you make must be planned in advance.

Abilities and Combos

Barrage is Pocket's main source of damage. He unleashes a swarm of flying flasks that home in on nearby enemies and pelt them with fire. The ability shines against grouped targets and multiple enemies at once, so it's especially valuable when opponents are clustered in tight spaces.

Affliction is his damage-over-time tool. An afflicted enemy takes periodic spirit damage, and the effect can spread to nearby targets. Paired with Barrage, Affliction turns a quick raid into sustained pressure and helps secure kills on low-health enemies trying to flee.

Flying Cloak provides mobility and initiation. The cloak carries Pocket forward through the air, letting him vault over obstacles, dive onto a target, or evacuate from a danger zone. Good cloak timing is half the battle: save it for an engage or a retreat rather than burning it on the first convenient opening.

Enchanter's Satchel is the ultimate. Pocket throws out a satchel, pulls enemies into it, and relocates them to a chosen point. It's a repositioning tool: you can yank a dangerous target out of safety and straight into your team's focus, or fling an advancing enemy away from your allies.

Core Combo

The standard sequence looks like this: engage with Flying Cloak, apply Affliction for damage over time, then fire Barrage into grouped targets and retreat with the same cloak. Hold the ultimate for a key moment — to drag an enemy carry into your team's focus or to rescue an ally caught while surrounded.

Positioning and Build

Play from the edges of a fight and keep your distance: Pocket is strong only as long as nobody reaches him point-blank. In the early game, focus on farming souls and trading carefully with Barrage rather than committing to health trades directly. For items, prioritize spirit-damage amplification, faster ability cooldowns, and a touch of survivability to weather a stray focus. Active items for escapes and breaking crowd control are valuable. The golden rule on Pocket: every raid must end in a retreat — the hero lives by hitting and disappearing.